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Sharing My Fascination with Math and Nature
Fibonacci Spiral poem
Numbers and logic satisfy me in a way that is difficult to describe. I enjoy order, although that would surprise the people I live with.
I’m messy as hell. My office is filled with piles of paper and canvas and I collect strange bits of metal and sculpture. I am an ephemera addict and can’t pass a thrift store without going in.
One of my dreams is to learn to weld and built large sculptures of dragons and giant lizards to put in my garden. Oh yes, my garden is studded with collected bits of rusting metal. There’s a lion in a tree, a long chain with a pointed arrow at one end is dangling from our front deck and the shed in the back is studded with discarded horseshoes — with the open end up so the luck doesn’t run out, of course.
On the surface, nature is also a messy place. To our eye, the deep forest is a chaos of fallen trees, layered with moss and leaves and delicious rot.
When we acquire a bit of land we tend to tidy it up, arranging plants in rows and pulling out weeds that we’ve decided don’t belong.
Deep beneath all the messy layers is a secret logic reflected in nature over and over again.
When I came across the Fibonacci sequence of numbers, it made complete sense. There is a plan after all.
This is my exploration of the logic underlying the structure of nature. “Elements abstracted from the math of things belong to the earth”.
The Circle of Life As a Logical Sequence
Fibonacci Spiral poem
when
a bird
breathes a song
a gentle strumming
that whispers of petals of blue
light as the touch of a summers bee in the woods
would it sing of a country song
or of sacrifice
as the hawk
swoops it
away
I loved writing this delicate poem and encourage you to try it. It follows the Fibonacci sequence of 1,2,3,5,8,13 and then it spirals back down, 8,5,3,2,1.
A lovely Fibonacci Spiral poem by Tej Deep, the inspiration for this dalliance.
Here is a Fibonacci poem taken to the seventh number in the Fibonacci sequence,(1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34, etc.) by the very creative and talented, Amy Marley.
I love this creative poem using syllables that follow the Fibonacci numbers, by Desiree Driesenaar.
In this story about feeding the earth, I talk about the Fibonacci Sequence and how it appears over and over in nature. Food and dirt are also topics of discussion. Also known as the connection between Soil and Soul, thanks to my friend Desiree.
This haiku reflects on elemental math in the trajectory of the planets. It’s much shorter than the Fibonacci poetry but part of its charm is in its simplicity.
When several articles about the Fibonacci Sequence appeared just after I put together my Poems for Gaia post, I couldn’t ignore the coincidence. I hope you enjoyed these connected stories.
If you enjoyed this poem, have a look at my book, We Swallow Light. It’s an exploration of events in a past life and a refreshing take on overcoming pain and the joy of finding love.
